Yeah... same side here buddy. I was only busting the misconception that it was months before a dialtone was available. Often - as is the case in Joplin - hams are the only ones around. But more and more so - telcos respond quickly and there is a reasonable amount of service immediately after the disaster.
Amusing? Nearly every device built with electronics starting in the 40's had a basic schematic included. It wasn't until the late 80's did they (manufacturers) stop including schematics on every device. Still today you can easily obtain service manuals and schematics for amateur gear. There IS however an "old boys club" of sorts regarding TV/LCD panel service stuff. Gotta be in it or pay for it.
Err....not sure where YOU were for Katrina, but certainly this wasn't the case for those of us from New Orleans.
Thats "First Responders" the infrastructure and cell service was available within days for cops and paramedics and rescuers. Normal folk - different story.
The study is speaking of the past 5 years showing an increase in new licensure. The podcast has been on for only a couple months. There have been other less-popular, non-TWIT podcasts (solder smoke being one of the best) showcasing ham radio.
The podcast is seen by a huge number of people, and Bob Heil K9EID is almost the perfect guy to represent our community.
Actually a much larger chunk of new ham activity is most likely due to the code restrictions being removed It's too bad there is such a resistance against no-codes. I passed my 5wpm so I was NEVER a no-code. Ham radio elitists are the most sad group. Just talk people, your piss-poor attitudes will only serve to increase your perception as a crotchety old fart about to die. Noobs are always going to be there, learn to live with them.
AH, now I get what you are talking about. However without practice simply having an amateur radio is completely useless. Look at the Katrina disaster to get a decent idea of how quickly communications infrastructure come back up. Within 7 days cell was restored for 1st responders, and within 2 weeks there was signal in most of the affected region.
I'm sorry but why are you capitalizing "ham"? You do realize that amateur radio has a much bigger use than that in a disaster right?
1. The purpose and intent of amateur radio 2. How it is regulated and enforced 3. What it is.
There is nothing citizen regulated about amateur radio. It is regulated by the governments of the amateurs licensed, specifically the FCC in the USA. There is no similarity to FIDONET whatsoever. While crisis-safe - that also isn't its intent. The purpose of amateur radio is to allow amateurs to communicate with each other. A result of that communication is that they often provide emergency communications, and health and welfare type stuff. This is all usually done by the volunteer organizations such as ARES/RACES/REACT etc.
You call CQ, or break in on an existing QSO and join in. You talk. Thats about it. The method in which you communicate (be it voice, data, CW, SSB) is really all that changes. There is a couple things taht you can also do, such as telemetry in a small scale (RC cars, weather stations, etc).
YAY HAM RADIO oops I mean: bah the junk filter doesn't let me post up CW.
sry 73 de kb8ufp robert
I'm totally missing out on 10m stuff going on - Apt dweller, so prefer to op mobile. Most (all?) of the 10m mobile rigs (that is the "affordable" ones) are quasilegal or converts or incredibly cheaply built (like the RCI-2950). I'd love an HTX-100 but those are harder and harder to find.
You haven't been through a few hurricanes in NYC. Christ you still think taping windows works? Don't you see how unprepared you are??! It just makes the shards stick to you! Don't do that. Put up plywood. Or leave.
Gloria 85, Agnes 72 are the only ones that came close - and agnes 72 was 50ish MPH winds in the city. It's likely to bring 100-120mph winds up there so be ready guys.
Regardless of what category the storm is as she arrives, the storm surge height will lag far behind. It's expected to bring more than 10-30 feet of water up wherever she lands.
This is actually incorrect. Think of the atmosphere as the surface of a balloon, much like curved space. There are large "mountains" and deep "valleys" (ridges and troughs) - domes of high pressure and bowls of low pressure. When a massive LP system such as a hurricane creates a large dip in the surface, it is steered by (pointed in the direction by) high pressure cells, around the periphery of them, and powered by the general flow of air around them as well.
Low pressure systems are generally attracted to each other - but they are actually steered by the higher pressures around the individual systems. They'll even combine in severe instances.
A low pressure system cannot push ANYTHING around. It will only be moved around by the higher pressures, towards the areas of lower pressures. It doesn't have a mind of its own, and she obeys the laws of physics.
I will agree that it disrupts local weather far inland, as seen this morn in South FL. The first burst of energy that come to the coast sparked a convective line of storms that produced 40kt winds locally and a good amount of rain. The outflow has increased the local temps and humidity, and will likely leave an inversion layer in place as she leaves, thus we'll be hot, miserable, and it won't rain.
Home Automation has grown leaps and bounds, but you'll have to pay to play. The current state of the art is "Crestron", but is definitely Audio/Video oriented, but will control things and automate yourhome as well. Price tag is near a quarter million for most high-end installs.
http://www.savantav.com/ is much cleaner, easier to use, updateable, and is chomping at Crestrons heels. Also very expensive in the hundreds of thousands, but they did just release a simple controller for only a few thousand. FYI: Savant is based on MacOSX.
IBM and dozens of call centers supporting the company used OS/2 - on 16mbit token ring networks - daily, productively, and much to the chagrin of myself and everyone in that section of the office - until around 2001ish - thats when they moved us to windows 2000 pro.
Obviously you've never driven on one of the roads they are talking about. Pickup trucks don't notice potholes, and you drive FASTER on dirt roads to minimize suspension travel. Not only did Mythbusters prove it, I LIVED it.
Drunken rednecks - and MI has more than one - don't slow down.
Born in 1979, spent my pre and teen years in Redford or Redford Township, MI. They STILL don't have paved roads from what I hear. This city of 50k or so which butts up against the western edge of Detroit proper - has roughly 30% of its residential roads still dirt. Today - in 2009. Potholes, water trucks spraying god knows what, mud, all kinds of fun to be had. Best part was shagging cars in the winter because there was really no danger, you could lose grip and no way you can scrape your face on dirt, at least not nearly as bad as you could end up in the hospital doing that on pavement.
According to wikipedia - this city is 89% white. Mostly trash (according to me, who lived there for a long time). Cross Telegraph Rd - and it's 89% black. White flight at its worst. Except these folks didn't get far enough.
I'm not shocked at this - it costs SO much money and no matter how much they throw at the roads they still have dozens of freeze thaw cycles to destroy them in a couple years.
Down here in south florida we have roads that have lasted 20 years and look damn good.
They aren't going to get away with modifying code to stifle competition. The copyright claim stands on its own but by bricking machines they seem to run afoul of antitrust law.
1 BTU = energy needed to raise 1 pound of water 1 degree.
1600 cuft pool: 6 feet deep/15 feet wide/17ish feet long, aka your average backyard pool.
A pint's a pound the whole world round... 1 cu ft water is 7.48 gallons, or about 62.31 pounds.
You are looking at: 62.31lbs x 1600 cuft = 99,696 lbs give or take.
You need 100,000 btu's to raise that 1 degree (and I believe its 1 degree in an hour)
Swimming pool heat pumps (reverse air conditioners really) as well as electric heaters and natural gas all have a power factor involved, since nothing is 100% efficient.
100,000 BTU's is generated from about 29000 watt hours.
So you need at least 29kw/h to make the heat to increase the temp in your pool 1 degree.
at $0.10 (USD) per kw/h, thats $3 per hour. Yes heating your pool is ridiculously expensive. So is cooling your house, or heating your house for that matter. Gas/oil/heat pumps are much more efficient and cost-effective than electricity at this.
Avg cpu uses 150-300watts TOTAL, and dissipates maybe 20-60W from the CPU at less than perfect efficiency.
You need to cool 2000 CPU's or maybe 1000 CPU's and 1000 video cards in order to raise the temp of your pool 1 degree.
Not necessarily. If you slip up for one week on your pool duties your pool could turn greener than pea soup. Automated chlorinators exist, but require even MORE careful pool chemistry work.
It requires a lot more work than simply "fill the chlorine bucket".
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There was an earthward CME, but it packed no punch. Not many particles are making it.
Have you ever had a geo-storm actually cause issues up in VHF (or are they UHF radios?)
And when I say that - I never mean "to the end user" just to officials...
Yeah... same side here buddy. I was only busting the misconception that it was months before a dialtone was available. Often - as is the case in Joplin - hams are the only ones around. But more and more so - telcos respond quickly and there is a reasonable amount of service immediately after the disaster.
LMAO I was just quoting the question I was answering re: quick phone service following the K storm.
Amusing? Nearly every device built with electronics starting in the 40's had a basic schematic included. It wasn't until the late 80's did they (manufacturers) stop including schematics on every device. Still today you can easily obtain service manuals and schematics for amateur gear. There IS however an "old boys club" of sorts regarding TV/LCD panel service stuff. Gotta be in it or pay for it.
Err....not sure where YOU were for Katrina, but certainly this wasn't the case for those of us from New Orleans.
Thats "First Responders" the infrastructure and cell service was available within days for cops and paramedics and rescuers. Normal folk - different story.
The study is speaking of the past 5 years showing an increase in new licensure. The podcast has been on for only a couple months. There have been other less-popular, non-TWIT podcasts (solder smoke being one of the best) showcasing ham radio.
The podcast is seen by a huge number of people, and Bob Heil K9EID is almost the perfect guy to represent our community.
Actually a much larger chunk of new ham activity is most likely due to the code restrictions being removed It's too bad there is such a resistance against no-codes. I passed my 5wpm so I was NEVER a no-code. Ham radio elitists are the most sad group. Just talk people, your piss-poor attitudes will only serve to increase your perception as a crotchety old fart about to die. Noobs are always going to be there, learn to live with them.
AH, now I get what you are talking about. However without practice simply having an amateur radio is completely useless.
Look at the Katrina disaster to get a decent idea of how quickly communications infrastructure come back up. Within 7 days cell was restored for 1st responders, and within 2 weeks there was signal in most of the affected region.
I'm sorry but why are you capitalizing "ham"? You do realize that amateur radio has a much bigger use than that in a disaster right?
Unfortunately you don't seem to understand:
1. The purpose and intent of amateur radio
2. How it is regulated and enforced
3. What it is.
There is nothing citizen regulated about amateur radio. It is regulated by the governments of the amateurs licensed, specifically the FCC in the USA. There is no similarity to FIDONET whatsoever. While crisis-safe - that also isn't its intent. The purpose of amateur radio is to allow amateurs to communicate with each other. A result of that communication is that they often provide emergency communications, and health and welfare type stuff. This is all usually done by the volunteer organizations such as ARES/RACES/REACT etc.
You call CQ, or break in on an existing QSO and join in. You talk. Thats about it. The method in which you communicate (be it voice, data, CW, SSB) is really all that changes. There is a couple things taht you can also do, such as telemetry in a small scale (RC cars, weather stations, etc).
YAY HAM RADIO oops I mean:
bah the junk filter doesn't let me post up CW.
sry 73 de kb8ufp robert
I'm totally missing out on 10m stuff going on - Apt dweller, so prefer to op mobile. Most (all?) of the 10m mobile rigs (that is the "affordable" ones) are quasilegal or converts or incredibly cheaply built (like the RCI-2950). I'd love an HTX-100 but those are harder and harder to find.
You haven't been through a few hurricanes in NYC. Christ you still think taping windows works? Don't you see how unprepared you are??! It just makes the shards stick to you! Don't do that. Put up plywood. Or leave.
Gloria 85, Agnes 72 are the only ones that came close - and agnes 72 was 50ish MPH winds in the city. It's likely to bring 100-120mph winds up there so be ready guys.
We don't. At least not in the lower 4 counties. Live in trailers are few and far between here.
Regardless of what category the storm is as she arrives, the storm surge height will lag far behind. It's expected to bring more than 10-30 feet of water up wherever she lands.
This is actually incorrect. Think of the atmosphere as the surface of a balloon, much like curved space. There are large "mountains" and deep "valleys" (ridges and troughs) - domes of high pressure and bowls of low pressure. When a massive LP system such as a hurricane creates a large dip in the surface, it is steered by (pointed in the direction by) high pressure cells, around the periphery of them, and powered by the general flow of air around them as well.
Low pressure systems are generally attracted to each other - but they are actually steered by the higher pressures around the individual systems. They'll even combine in severe instances.
A low pressure system cannot push ANYTHING around. It will only be moved around by the higher pressures, towards the areas of lower pressures. It doesn't have a mind of its own, and she obeys the laws of physics.
I will agree that it disrupts local weather far inland, as seen this morn in South FL. The first burst of energy that come to the coast sparked a convective line of storms that produced 40kt winds locally and a good amount of rain. The outflow has increased the local temps and humidity, and will likely leave an inversion layer in place as she leaves, thus we'll be hot, miserable, and it won't rain.
I might consider a phone line, esp since we are in hurricane country. However it costs friggin $60 a month!!!!!!
Home Automation has grown leaps and bounds, but you'll have to pay to play. The current state of the art is "Crestron", but is definitely Audio/Video oriented, but will control things and automate yourhome as well. Price tag is near a quarter million for most high-end installs.
http://www.savantav.com/ is much cleaner, easier to use, updateable, and is chomping at Crestrons heels. Also very expensive in the hundreds of thousands, but they did just release a simple controller for only a few thousand. FYI: Savant is based on MacOSX.
IBM and dozens of call centers supporting the company used OS/2 - on 16mbit token ring networks - daily, productively, and much to the chagrin of myself and everyone in that section of the office - until around 2001ish - thats when they moved us to windows 2000 pro.
Obviously you've never driven on one of the roads they are talking about. Pickup trucks don't notice potholes, and you drive FASTER on dirt roads to minimize suspension travel. Not only did Mythbusters prove it, I LIVED it.
Drunken rednecks - and MI has more than one - don't slow down.
Born in 1979, spent my pre and teen years in Redford or Redford Township, MI. They STILL don't have paved roads from what I hear. This city of 50k or so which butts up against the western edge of Detroit proper - has roughly 30% of its residential roads still dirt. Today - in 2009. Potholes, water trucks spraying god knows what, mud, all kinds of fun to be had. Best part was shagging cars in the winter because there was really no danger, you could lose grip and no way you can scrape your face on dirt, at least not nearly as bad as you could end up in the hospital doing that on pavement.
According to wikipedia - this city is 89% white. Mostly trash (according to me, who lived there for a long time). Cross Telegraph Rd - and it's 89% black. White flight at its worst. Except these folks didn't get far enough.
I'm not shocked at this - it costs SO much money and no matter how much they throw at the roads they still have dozens of freeze thaw cycles to destroy them in a couple years.
Down here in south florida we have roads that have lasted 20 years and look damn good.
They aren't going to get away with modifying code to stifle competition. The copyright claim stands on its own but by bricking machines they seem to run afoul of antitrust law.
if they make modifications specifically to break competitor's ability to use their engines, then they are engaging in anti-trust action.
This.
Here are the maths:
1 BTU = energy needed to raise 1 pound of water 1 degree.
1600 cuft pool: 6 feet deep/15 feet wide/17ish feet long, aka your average backyard pool.
A pint's a pound the whole world round... 1 cu ft water is 7.48 gallons, or about 62.31 pounds.
You are looking at: 62.31lbs x 1600 cuft = 99,696 lbs give or take.
You need 100,000 btu's to raise that 1 degree (and I believe its 1 degree in an hour)
Swimming pool heat pumps (reverse air conditioners really) as well as electric heaters and natural gas all have a power factor involved, since nothing is 100% efficient.
100,000 BTU's is generated from about 29000 watt hours.
So you need at least 29kw/h to make the heat to increase the temp in your pool 1 degree.
at $0.10 (USD) per kw/h, thats $3 per hour. Yes heating your pool is ridiculously expensive. So is cooling your house, or heating your house for that matter. Gas/oil/heat pumps are much more efficient and cost-effective than electricity at this.
Avg cpu uses 150-300watts TOTAL, and dissipates maybe 20-60W from the CPU at less than perfect efficiency.
You need to cool 2000 CPU's or maybe 1000 CPU's and 1000 video cards in order to raise the temp of your pool 1 degree.
Not necessarily. If you slip up for one week on your pool duties your pool could turn greener than pea soup. Automated chlorinators exist, but require even MORE careful pool chemistry work.
It requires a lot more work than simply "fill the chlorine bucket".
All those games suck.
...Profit?
1. World of Warcraft
2. Guild Wars (When WoW is down)
3. World of Warcraft
4. World of Warcraft
5.
Notice a trend?